Expressions of Condolences
FROM ITALY: I’m very sorry to have to tell you that Silvia Rizzo suddenly passed away last Monday night. We will all miss her greatly. All of us who have been collaborating with Silvia for many years are shocked by her sudden death… I had just met her on Monday evening at a party organised by the US Consular Agency for the 4th of July celebrations. She was well, and we had already arranged to meet yesterday to work on other projects she had… so is life… Gabriella Sonnewald
FROM UK: I am so sorry to learn the very sad news of Silvia. She really was a pioneer at trying to do something about livening up the drab, dreary and depressing city scape. I admired her efforts greatly. I wanted to get a copy of some of her urban work to include in my paper being given in Taiwan AIC2012. Too late now. John Hutchings
FROM PORTUGAL: This is a sad notice. I’ve met Silvia Rizzo in Venice and, though I didn’t knew her well, I’ve read some of her papers and find that she was very affable. Please, send my deepest sympathy to all her friends and family. Margarida Gamito
FROM IRAN: Silvia’s bright memories in Genova, her kindness and her colorful world will be with me as long as I live. If you have access to her family, friends and colleagues, please send my deep condolences. She invited me to Genova twice, in 2003 and 2007, and it is not possible to forget her coming to the airport to welcome us and during all days there, how she tried to warmly host us. At that time, in 2003, Tom Porter was also with us, with Karin Fridell Anter and others. Goodbye Silvia, Susan Habib
FROM PORTUGAL: Caríssimos investigadores e amigos da cor: Atónita perante os insondáveis mistérios da vida, é com tristeza que vos comunico a passagem de Sílvia Rizzo, uma eminente investigadora e educadora. A comunidade perde, assim, uma vida de intensa dedicação à cor nos fulcrais domínios da arte e da educação. Maria João Durão ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DA COR, Vice-President
FROM HUNGARY: I have to add one more conference presentation: April 24, 2007 International Conference on Colour Harmony, Budapest, Prof. Silvia RIZZO: HARMONY OF COLOR AS CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL EXPRESSION. ITS ROLE IN ENVIRONMENTAL COLOR. János Zana
FROM AUSTRALIA: This news is received with very deep sadness. It was a pleasure to have met Sylvia at past AIC Congresses. She will be sadly missed. Annamaria di Cara Past President 2001-2005 The Colour Society of Australia
FROM SWEDEN: The latest news about Silvia Rizzo was sad – she was such a nice person. Karin Fridell Anter Docent, Arkitekt SAR/MSA
FROM AUSTRALIA: On behalf of our President, National Executive and all our Colour Society of Australia membership, may we forward our sincere condolences to all colleagues of Silvia Rizzo in our international world of colour. Such key contributors to our knowledge and experience will always be greatly missed. Glenys Thomson National Secretary Colour Society of Australia
in memoriam Silvia Rizzo
The funeral service will be held Friday 20, 2012 at 11:45 a.m. at the Church of La Consolazione, Via XX Settembre, Genoa.
Silvia Rizzo, dies July 9th, 2012
It is with deep regret that I inform you of the passing of one of our members. SILVIA RIZZO was a teacher of sculpture at the Klee-Barabino School of Arts (Liceo Artistico) in Genoa, Italy. She was a member of the Study Group on Environmental Colour Design of the International Colour Association (AIC).
A major focus of her research was arts education practices and educational methodology. Her various AIC papers published in the conference proceedings sum up some of her professional concerns very concisely. She shared information with us at the many AIC conferences and congresses she attended: Kyoto, 1997; Warsaw, 1999; Seoul, 2000; Rochester, 2001; Maribor, 2002; Granada, 2005; etc., and also last year’s AIC Midterm Meeting in Zurich, 2011. AIC
Just a few weeks ago at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Colour and Pattern Harmony in Budapest, Hungary, held on June 11-13, 2012, she presented The Color Maze, considered as an artwork by the UNICEF, which is a colour design project applied to an urban space in Genoa that stimulates children’s reflections on the knowledge and harmony of colours. At the International Conference on Colour Harmony in Budapest in 2007, she presented a paper on Harmony of Color as Contemporary Cultural Expression. Its Role in Environmental Color.
As well, she attended numerous international workshops. She conducted a seminar on colour held at the School of Architecture, Genoa University. She was a Visiting Professor at New York University (with offices in New York and Venice). She organized several international conferences in Genoa on colour design and also on the relationship between colour and culture. Some of the titles include: Colour and Urban Space between History and Contemporary Times; Colour and Design between Communication and Production; and Colour and Didactics. The Berlin-based architectural journal Bauwelt dedicated a cover article to her work.
She collaborated in exhibitions and events organized by the University of Genoa, School of Architecture. She was also a member of Hands-On International, the International Children Museums Association. In 1987 she was awarded First Prize for Colour Education of the FarbDesignPreis, an international competition whose awards ceremony is celebrated at the Design Centre in Stuttgart.
We will miss her precious contributions and presence and would like to extend our deepest sympathy to her family and friends.
Verena M. Schindler, Chair
AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design
ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com
www.aic-color.org/sgroups
Expressions of Condolences
FROM USA: I am saddened to hear of the passing of Silvia Rizzo. Her talk in Budapest in June was insightful, it was a summary of her long term project the “Colour Maze” that she was extremely committed to. I wrote a congratulatory letter to her as the progress on the “Colour Maze”—-an installation she worked on tirelessly became a reality and it was really quiet handsome. I am glad that the city of Genoa came honored her and produced this work that she gave as a gift to the children of the city. It was a shock to know that she has passed away, I have many pleasant memories of her from AIC Budapest and Granada when I first heard her speak of her vision and dream of the “Colour Maze”. Silvia Rizzo will be missed by the international community interested in colour and the many ways it benefits our lives. Marcia R. Cohen Professor SCAD Atlanta USA
FROM GREECE: I was shocked by the news of Silvia’s passing and would like to have the address of her family to send my sympathy, for I have known personally the excellent woman, artist and scientist, met her in several AIC Conferences and have been the object of her collegial attentions and hospitality in one of the international conferences she organised in Genoa a few years ago. She was one of the persons one expects to radiate energy and enthusiasm to everybody around for ever! God bless her dear soul and let everybody remember her with the affection and respect that she deserved. I attach here two more joyful photos of her from the conference she organised in Genoa in 2003 to which I was invited and will forever remember as one of the best things that happened to me in the professional field. In the first photo she sits next to Tom Porter on her left, and Susan Habib on her right hand at the beautiful banquet she prepared for the participants on the second night of the conference. In the second she is in the boat, which took us around the port. Well, I thought I might give you these photos in case you would want to include them in the site in her memoriam for they breathe life and joy. Fannie Tosca 
